After implying that immigrants (later qualified to just be the illegal immigrants, the ones largely fleeing poverty) are rapists and drug dealers coming to America with ill intent (which caused gobs of people/companies associated with Donald Trump to stop doing that), ol’ Donald is confident that he will win the Latino vote: “I have a [Read More...]

Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma has said that, at least for the time being, she’s defying the court order to remove the ten commandments monument from the state capitol gounds: Gov. Mary Fallin on Tuesday said the Ten Commandments monument will stay at the Capitol despite a court ruling that said it violated the state [Read More...]

The city of Glencoe, Alabama used to fly the Christian flag over some government buildings until the Freedom From Religion Foundation got wind of it and gave the city the option to take it down for free. The city resentfully complied, and now the city’s mayor, Charles Gilchrist, is trying to spin it so that [Read More...]

A bill in California that would have given terminally ill patients the right to physician-assisted suicide has failed to advance. The reason terminally ill, suffering patients should have to stick around to deteriorate in pain for however long it takes them to die naturally? Why, the love of Christ, of course: A California bill that [Read More...]

America is undoubtedly a melting pot. It’s home to people of all races, all beliefs, and it promises equality to each of them. That has always been the glory of the USA: no one group is seen as better in the eyes of the government. The rights of the wealthy extend to the poor, the [Read More...]

The South Carolina senate was all set to discuss how to react to the removal of the confederate flag from the statehouse when Republican State Senator Lee Bright, who surely thought SCOTUS was spot on with its Hobby Lobby ruling, decided to rail against judicial tyranny and gay marriage. You can hear his voice crack [Read More...]

Ever since Donald Trump said that Mexican immigrants were rapists (and more), he’s been hemorrhaging sponsors and pretty much anybody who previously wanted anything to do with him. The latest is NASCAR: NASCAR is the latest corporation to distance itself from Donald Trump. On the same day one of its top sponsors called on NASCAR to [Read More...]

Holy crap the news is boooooooooring today. But I guess that’s a good thing. If there’s little catching my eye that means people largely stopped fucking with one another for a whole weekend. You go, humanity. Anyway, you know how gobs of Christians swore up and down on Jesus and every bible in print that [Read More...]

Just in case the morning happiness post wasn’t enough to put a smile on your face today, here’s this: The Icelandic Parliament (‘Alþingi’) has voted today to decriminalise blasphemy in Iceland. As reported by Iceland Monitor in February this year, three Pirate Party MPs moved a bill before Alþingi to have the clause removed from the Icelandic [Read More...]

I was thinking about the Baxter County nativity case yesterday (if you’re unfamiliar with the case, I’ve covered it in great detail here and here) in which the county judge is, frankly, without a doubt discriminating against the atheists he’s charged with representing. It occurred to me I need to write about how it’s going [Read More...]

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